samba - Oct 1998 - Lots of smbd -D when doing 'ps ax'

Initially when the system is booted up, there is only one smbd & 1 nmbd.

After awhile, there seems to be many instances of 'smbd -D' around when
I do
a 'ps ax'.

Is it normal to have so many instances of smbd running?

Thanks.

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Philip Tong wrote:
> Initially when the system is booted up, there is only one smbd & 1
nmbd.
> 
> After awhile, there seems to be many instances of 'smbd -D' around
when I do
> a 'ps ax'.
> 
> Is it normal to have so many instances of smbd running?
> 
Yes.  My understanding is that the main smbd spawns a new copies of itself
to handle each client that requests services.  If you use smbstatus it
will tell you the users connected as well as the process IDs of the smbd
that is handling the requests. 

Hope this help

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